Improvement in toys



C. E. BALDWIN.

Tuysi N0.149,908, Patented April 21,1874.

UNITED S'rn'rns CHARLES E. BALDWIN, OF SAN JOS, CALIFORNIA.

llVIPROVENlENT IN TOYS.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No. lgf', dated April 21,1874; application tiled February 24, 1874. v

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, OHAnLns E. BALDWIN, of SanJ os, in the county of Santa Clara and State of California, haveinvented an Improvement in Musical Toys, of which the following is aspecification:

This invention has for its object to combine with the Well-knownreturn-ball7 one or more whistles, which will give a musical sound onthe projection and recoil of the ball; and it consists in making in sucha ball a cylindrical hole for the reception of a tube having awhistle ateach end, With an internal piston and spiral spring. The piston-rodextends through the aperture of one whistle, and has attached to it oneend ot' a cord, which is longer than the usual elastic cord, and itsother end is at tached to the same ring as the elastic cord is securedto, the whole being arranged to operate as more fully hereinafter setforth.

Figure l is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of' the balland whistles.

In the drawing, A represents a wooden ball with a hole bored through itto receive a cylinder, B,having at each end a pair of convex sheetmetalcircular plates, a a., with a central aperture in each plate, each pairforming a whistle. C is a piston Vloosely tted in the cylinder, with apiston-rod b, extendin g through the apertures of one whistle.v c is aspiral spring interposed between one whistle and the piston, to forcethe latter toward one end of the cylinder. To the end of the piston-rodis secured one end of an elastic cord, D, the other end of which issecured to the ring E, Whichis held by the player.' F is a cord of morethan the normal length of the elastic cord, but less than the length towhich the latter can safely be stretched, one end bein g secured to thering and the other to the piston-rod. As the ball is thrown away fromthe player, the elastic cord will stretch until the cord F is strained,when the piston will be drawn toward the top of the cylinder, expellingair from that end and drawing it in at the other, producing a musicalsound. As the ball returns the spring will force back the piston,reversing the currents of air, and thus produce tones from both whistlesin each movement of the ball.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. A toy return-ball inclosing a whistle, provided with a pistonattached to an elastic and to anonelastic cord, substantially asdescribed.

2. The ball A, cylinder B, provided with the whistles a a, the piston C,rod b, spring c, elastic cord D, ring E, and non-elastic cord F,constructed and arranged to operate substantially as set forth.

CHARLES E. BALDIVIN.

Witnesses:

Win.V H. Lora, CARL BEER.

